@amerika you can make the same arguments for REXX.
PHP was a hack from day zero and remains so. It's useful when you need a hack, but I don't think serious people use for new projects of any real scope. If they do, I'd like to make fun of them.
@Moon literal use. Directed by your boss to put them in your email sig or on your business card. Required by your department. Institutional enforcement. Schools requiring children to elaborate on this and presenting it as real, normal, and default to kids.
If someone gives you a choice, "we really like to see pronouns in bio" -- it's just pressure, and I'm not talking about that.
The best thing about the Israel-Palestine conflict is the (new to many) understanding that importing the 3rd world is importing 3rd world tribalism and bullshit, which is the best demonstration to the 1st world of what defines the 3rd world culturally, and consequentially, deportation is back on the menu. 👌
@ScoWer22 i did think on that and it occurred to me that maybe Trump (or any other president) might have guns to their heads, or even a limited amount of political capital that defines their priorities after their stated and current concerns are on the table.
Assange and Snowden have already clearly demonstrated that revelations of government fuckery of any scale (DAS,recently) do not matter at all in terms of changing people's minds, beliefs, or behaviors except on the most irrelevant margins.
@MountainJay religious belief doesn't depend on an organized religion. You could simply have a Personal Religious Belief that you cannot accept certain kinds of medicine and any further prying constitutes interference with personal practice.
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